It is worrying that the charge is murder , which is quite unusual in Scotland - normally it's culpable homicide. That would suggest it was deliberate and premeditated. I don't know how she thought she could have gotton away with it.

The Famous Grouse wrote:It is worrying that the charge is murder , which is quite unusual in Scotland - normally it's culpable homicide. That would suggest it was deliberate and premeditated. I don't know how she thought she could have gotton away with it.

Probably a working-class woman on her own, without powerful allies and no idea of how to get rid of a body.